Vulnerabilites related to Canonical - Ubuntu Kernel
CVE-2023-32629 (GCVE-0-2023-32629)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-26 01:59
Modified
2025-02-13 16:54
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu Kernels overlayfs ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data skip permission checks when calling ovl_do_setxattr on Ubuntu kernels
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | Ubuntu Kernel |
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CVE-2023-2640 (GCVE-0-2023-2640)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-26 01:59
Modified
2024-10-23 14:59
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
On Ubuntu kernels carrying both c914c0e27eb0 and "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs", an unprivileged user may set privileged extended attributes on the mounted files, leading them to be set on the upper files without the appropriate security checks.
References
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| https://wiz.io/blog/ubuntu-overlayfs-vulnerability | technical-description | |
| https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2023-July/140923.html | mailing-list |
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